Best of Steve Spurrier: Amazing stories, funny quotes from legendary career

There have been plenty of great college football coaches. Only a select few earn the distinction of being a true legend of the sport.

Steve Spurrier won an ACC title at Duke. He made Florida a national power. He won 11 games three years in a row at South Carolina.

Spurrier was an amazing, Hall of Fame-caliber coach. He’s already in the college football HOF as a player, after winning the Heisman Trophy in 1966.

What made Spurrier a legend, an almost mythical presence in college football, was his wit and willingness to say and do just about anything. Spurrier is a great coach, but the Head Ball Coach is a legend.

The news of Spurrier’s retirement was announced Monday night. Over the next couple of hours, there was an outpouring of old stories and favorite quotes from Spurrier on social media.

Here’s some of the best of the HBC:

It’s not easy to tell stories in 140 characters, but there were plenty of great ones Monday night.

Still my favorite Spurrier moment: posing his Duke team under the scoreboard after skunking UNC in Chapel Hill. http://t.co/tSGE52psJ0

Spurrier became known as the HBC, or The Visor, because he won so many games and was one of the best quotes in the history of the sport. Some of his famous one-liners have become lore, and few rival outposts were safe from Spurrier’s quips. Here are some of the best:

Spurrier when a fire at Auburn destroyed 20 books: "The real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet."